Good Wednesday, everyone. Our calm and quiet pattern is getting more active as we track a couple of systems into the region. Each of these will bring a low-end risk for strong to severe storms with a much cooler pattern to follow into Memorial Day Weekend.
Our first system arrives today with scattered showers and storms increasing this afternoon and evening. A few of these may be strong and the Storm Prediction Center has a low-end threat for severe weather…
Our next system arrives in here Thursday night and Friday, bringing more widespread showers and storms. Ahead of this, temps spike deep into the 80s for Thursday as a strong southwest wind kicks in. At the same time, strong to severe storms fire up to our west and may move into the western half of the state before the day is over. This is where the SPC is highlighting for the best Thursday threat for severe storms…
Low pressure works into the Ohio Valley Friday with additional showers and some thunderstorms. Winds will be rather gusty as this system works through and it may be slow enough to keep clouds and a shower or two around into Saturday…
With a VERY cool northeast wind blowing, if the low clouds hang around, look out. Highs in the 60s may be as good as it gets as many of the models are trending even cooler. The GFS keeps readings near record cold highs…
So does the Canadian…
Even the warm biased EURO has some upper 50s…
If skies clear fully Saturday night and Sunday morning, temps can really drop. 40s are a good bet across the board. Highs Sunday recover into the upper 60s to middle 70s with partly sunny skies. That’s well below normal.
Memorial Day looks mainly dry with readings getting back toward the upper 70s and low 80s. Some thunderstorms look to crash back in shortly thereafter to kick off the month of June.
I leave you with your storm tracking tools for this Wednesday…
Current watches
Possible Watch Areas
Have a great day and take care.
For the fourth day in a row, my PWS near Bowling Green recorded a temperature exceeding 90°. At 3:50 pm, the temperature reached 92.8°, with a Heat Index reading of 96°! Thankfully, temps will moderate over the next few days. This year, the normally placid month of May has been anything but!
#TheNewNormal
Eighty eight is the highest temperature the Kentucky Mesonet has recorded so far this Spring in my county of Taylor.
Looking forward to the cooler temperatures this weekend and I hope everyone receives the much needed rain before the delightful weather arrives this holiday weekend.
The weekend is going to be delightful.
Just for fun I went into the Archives on KWC a year ago to date and found that it is a carbon copy of the weather we are having now. Unbelievable ! I kind of wonder what is really going on in the World’s atmosphere ?https://kyweathercenter.com/?p=42167